MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- It was standing room only at the Pike Road Town Hall as many of the 5,400 residents showed up for a town hall meeting Tuesday night to hear funding options for a grade school slated within the next five years.

Mayor Gordon Stone explained that the $16 million K-8 school would require an increase in property taxes so there's enough money for the 900-student school.

Four options will be put before voters this summer to increase the current 29-mill property tax, Stone said. That includes state and county taxes.